One of the guns used in the November 13, 2015 Paris terrorist attacks came from Phoenix, Arizona where the Obama administration allowed criminals to buy thousands of weapons illegally in a deadly and futile “gun-walking” operation known as “Fast and Furious.”

A Report of Investigation (ROI) filed by a case agent in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) tracked the gun used in the Paris attacks to a Phoenix gun owner who sold it illegally, “off book,” Judicial Watch’s law enforcement sources confirm. Federal agents tracing the firearm also found the Phoenix gun owner to be in possession of an unregistered fully automatic weapon, according to law enforcement officials with firsthand knowledge of the investigation.

I know this will fuel crazy conspiracy theories, but there really is a simple explanation – illegal guns eventually end up in exactly these kinds of situations because terrorists can’t purchase guns legally.

Under Bush the same program was called “Operation Wide Reciever” … I guess we should charge Bush too. OR…. We could just worry about congress being owned by big business and the wealthy….

DoruSlinger✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ

BS – that was a sting to target illegal gun sales, not a sting to buy arms illegally and then get them into the hands of the cartels.

Hgeyer

Sorry but it was the same “gun walk” sting like Fast and Furious…. Need me to post a link or do you know how to search?

Walter H WILSON3rd

I believe you have this story, under control covering the facts!!!

Anvil6

The difference between Operation Wide Receiver (OWR) and Operation Fast and Furious (OF&F) is VERY CLEAR.
There was an ACTUAL attempt to track guns in OWR. When tracking devices hidden inside OWR guns began to fail (less than 200 guns into the operation), the operation was SHUT DOWN.
There was NO ATTEMPT to track guns in OF&F (unless you consider pins stuck into a map depicting locations where OF&F guns were found at crime scenes to be “tracking”) because there WERE NO TRACKING DEVICES in OF&F guns. In OF&F more than 2,000 guns were placed into criminal hands before the media LEAKED the fact that at least one gun found where US Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was murdered while on patrol was from Operation Fast and Furious.
Last info released said there are STILL about 1,500 “OF&F guns” in criminal hands SOMEWHERE. Former US Attorney General Eric Holder was found to be “in contempt of Congress” for his abject failure to provide OF&F information to congressional investigators. Mr. Holder DID, however, leave us with this tidbit of wisdom: “We will be finding (OF&F) guns at crime scenes on BOTH sides of the border for DECADES to come.”
Generally, the AUTHORITY to STOP a US Government Agency-run operation rests with either the person who AUTHORIZED the operation, or with the underling given that authority by the person who DID authorize that operation. When the then-acting Director of the BATFE testified before a Congressional Committee that he was “sickened” as he watched a live video feed of criminals buying guns in OF&F, the Committee asked if he stopped the operation. His reply: “No.” AG Holder, however, claimed “I STOPPED it (OF&F) as soon as I found out about it.” AG Holder did not say whether it was the murder of a US Law Enforcement Agent with an OF&F gun, OR the fact that the media OUTED the ties between OF&F and Brian A. Terry’s murder that prompted HIM to “stop it”- as HE was AUTHORIZED. Interesting, isn’t it?
To date, this “most transparent administration in US history” continues to DENY that ANYBODY was responsible for OF&F and has punished NO ONE.

Hgeyer

Got anything to back that up? I don’t believe things just because someone said it online… But I do investigate new information when I hear it. I haven’t found anything confirming any of your statements so please enlighten me.

Anvil6

I really hate to cut, paste, and run but I’m unsure what you’d like to see more on, so please enjoy the following & let me know how it works for you:

Just for starters your first link lists 750 guns that “walked” during the Operation Wide Receiver, not 200 as you had posted….

Anvil6

Read AGAIN. Initial OWR info (years ago) was for 200, since updated to 474, with 64 (13.5%) RECOVERED AT THE BORDER, a total of 410 missing, NOT the 700+ you somehow read.
The “cause” of OF&F, if indeed anything can justify an operation DESIGNED to place guns into criminal hands, was a SCATHING annual report by none other than the Department of Justice Inspector General citing the BATFE for, among other things, “only” caching and prosecuting what the IG called “low-level straw buyers”. Subsequently, SOMEBODY (nobody will admit who) at DOJ/White House ‘decided’ to ‘go after the drug cartel leaders’. It would seem to me that channeling MORE illegal guns into criminal hands in Mexico – without notifying Mexican Authorities – would be counterproductive to that goal. The “walking/running” of guns DID, however fit with the Obama/Clinton FALSE narrative that “90% of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes were from the US”. You may reach your own conclusion, but mine is that OF&F was an attempt to bring that FALSE “90%” closer to reality and they didn’t care (OBVIOUSLY) how many people died on BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER to reach their objective – and only quit when the MEDIA’S exposure of the link between the murder of a US Border Patrol Agent in Arizona to Operation Fast and Furious FORCED them to terminate OF&F.

Walter H WILSON3rd

Thank you , you saved me from explaining it to him.

Dan

Great reply!

kate777

I think you failed to mention President Obama did an executive order to protect AG Holder from further action or investigation by Congress. It is amazing how often President Obama and his Administration had no idea what was going on within their realms of responsibility and that certainly includes the State Department.

Anvil6

Actually Obama, at the urging of/because of the BEGGING of AG Holder, ‘threw the cloak of “executive privilege” ‘ over communications between the AG and the White House concerning Operation Fast and Furious beginning (IIRC), on the date it became public knowledge that one of the guns found at BP Agent Terry’s murder traced back to Operation Fast and Furious.
Timeline-wise, that would have been in what is called ‘the COVER-UP period’. IF Obama did not already know exactly what was going on before then (and likely he had APPROVED at LEAST the concept of operation) those communications most CERTAINLY made him fully aware of the gory details. It IS worth noting that even the ‘executive privilege cloak’ did NOT prevent Congress with slapping a “Contempt of Congress” charge on AG Holder.

kate777

A lot of good the “Contempt of Congress” charge did, had the same effect the FBI investigation into Hillary’s use of her private Server for e-mail of Classified Information to and from the State Department while she was Secretary of State. Yes sir, our Government at work.

Anvil6

Yeah, it DID (eventually) get Holder to leave. Never thought I’d wish he were back, but the present AG certainly is much worse – who knew that was even possible?

kate777

You still don’t get it, this Government is corrupt under President Obama and his Administration. It does not matter who the AG is now or any that replace her under the present Government, they would be corrupt. Once President Obama decided what Laws to obey and what Laws to ignore, Corruption set in as a steel bar with the capacity to grow. which it has.

Anvil6

Oh, I get it all TOO well. As SOON as somebody in Obama’s White House decided that HRC’s email server was LIKELY to blow up in their faces (and THEY knew about it ‘WAY before we did) – and that Obama DESPERATELY NEEDS HRC to be the next President – they set about ‘populating’ the most important posts in the DOJ (that would be ‘FBI Director’ and ‘US Attorney General’) with people beholden to the Clintons. Then, JUST IN CASE, Obama ENDORSED HRC for the Presidency, thereby sending the unmistakable and powerful message that “NOBODY will DARE stand in the way of WHAT OBAMA WANTS”.
Even the so-called ‘hard questions’ asked of HRC and AG Lynch before Congress allowed ‘way too much “wiggle room” in their answers – allowing Congress to essentially say ‘we TRIED’. With Comey, they at least got HIM to admit that HRC committed acts she had previously told Congress UNDER OATH she had not done. That perjury case may be too little, too late to stop the unindicted criminal from being on the ballot in November.
Politicians are like baby diapers. Both need to be changed often, and for the SAME reason – they get dirty really quickly.

kate777

I would say you do “get it” all too well. And yes, unfortunately any politician that is in government, be it local, State or Federal, eventually can get their hands very dirty. All need term limits just as we have for the President of the United States, no exceptions, and that goes for the
Supreme Court as we see that too has been corrupted. The World has changed to where values of right and wrong have turned tables.

ward

bo’s acts were not exec privileges, they were obvious treason … !

ward

Murder in Benghazi & on the U.S. borders was the fault of bo, holder & Hilary the lying phony running for POTUS is the same type of dictatorial criminal ! No indicments is the proof bo’s appointed cronies are bought !

Darrel Dunson

Sounds like you just said it was OK for odummit to do it cause someone else did it previously, according to you. Until we hold our leaders to a higher standard we will always have inferior leadership. That equates to utter and complete failure. It is stupid and inexcusable. In cases like this we apparently do not need leaders. According to you we should just follow the person deepest in the mire.

Hgeyer

Just wondering why nobody complained when the republican (white guy) did it…. It’s not like Obama came up with the plan and is in charge of every decision that every government agency makes on a day to day basis… I think he had more pressing problems like a congress that refuses to do it’s job simply to make him look bad and idiots that make up stupid names instead of giving our president the respect he deserves.

ward

You are full of shit like the rest of your type of libtard asses ! The dem logo fits all the duded wannabe dictators very well & 3 miles below whale shit is fact !

Hgeyer

ward= Ignorant dirtbag not worthy of my time to respond….

Paul Joseph

Eric “the Enforcer” Holder was Obama’s Frank Nitti

ward

bo & holder along with their many criminally supporting crones like Clinton are guilty o treason in many areas but the congress does nothing to indict or stop their crimes !

jardow90

Aiding and abetting? Doubt they could make it stick.

Hgeyer

LMAO! It said terrorist can’t buy guns legally but thanks to the NRA there is no truth to that bull$hit lie!

DoruSlinger✓ᵀᴿᵁᴹᴾ

What don’t you get – the Obama Administration gave guns to the bad guys – what a dolt.

Hgeyer

Just like the Bush administration….. But that’s okay, because he was a republican!

Anvil6

Bush’s guys quit at about 200 when they found that tracking devices hidden in the guns failed when the batteries died. Obama’s guys went FULL THROTTLE (with NO tracking devices in the guns) to about 2,000 and ONLY stopped when the MEDIA LEAKED the fact that a gun found in Arizona where a Border Patrol Agent was murdered was from Operation Fast and Furious.

Dan

What an air head you are ! The NRA has done more for individual rights than any other organization.

Paul Joseph

So has the JPFO

Hgeyer

And terrorists are very thankful for their support!

TroyGale

I don’t know why anyone is surprised, when you elect an affirmative action President, and he appoints an affirmative action candidate to every agency, what would any sane person believe:
1. This is great, it is a new era in competence, transparency, and rational policies.
2. Oh oh, this can’t possibly be good, we are all so screwed.

If you selected answer 1, you are a big part of the problem!

disqus_vzJKUSDnCH

If those idiots hadn’t hatched this plan in the first place then those guns wouldn’t be in the hands of terrorists. Obama should be deported to Franceand charged with murder before and after the fact

Anvil6

No need to give him a leaky rowboat and point him across the North Atlantic with the oars in his hands, just march him across our “secured” border into Mexico, where HUNDREDS of people, including innocent civilians, military, police and government officials have been murdered by criminals using guns supplied to them thru Operation Fast and Furious. He might sit in one of their fine jails for a while as they decide which of the many jurisdictions would like to try him for murder of one or more of their citizens first.

disqus_rEWjgfyzIp

As it was best put by the clown in CA that was against guns and caught running illegal firearms “there is more money in illegal gun sales” . The gun running goes back to Reagan just he had Ollie take the fall for him. Besides how else is the government going to back the terrorist is destabilizing governments(including ours)

gerald scott

And at this point to quote Killery What difference does it make? He wants to disarm the Average law abiding American citizen while arming every terrorist on the block

Dick Ellis

SEND BOZO AND HOLDER TO THE WORLD COURT!

gdhdcx

Amd what will happen, the homo pimp is anove the law.

Lee

What’s new? This POS has been crooked since the day he started breathing.

CBUJAN

Isn’t Obama brilliant?

Alex Peshansky

Why is it “breaking news”? I can swear I read it at least a week ago.

bobm

It’s time to make this a precedent ALL culpable players go to jail for a minimum 2yrs. NO EXCEPTIONS!

blackwingA520

My SKS rifle was stolen last year, wish it would have shown up so I could have used it again. Had almost 2,000 rds. of ammo (mostly Brass cased) for it but had to sell most of it, needed the cash, sucks that I never got to shoot much of it. Kept the good German “Steel core” stuff though for barter later.

Paul Joseph

used to have a Jugoslavian SKS. It was a nice rifle

TheEPClark

SKS Is a Swedish weapon,

Sasquatch

Why is no one going after Marc Turi’s computer, phone records and email accounts ? Did these same guns show up in Libya ? Some place called Benghazi ?
Somebody answer the phone at the White House at 2 am ? NOT !!!

Joe Stephens

This is one of the most lawless administrations that I can remember, or read about. This includes Nixon’s.